Difference between Positiveness and Positivism

What is the difference between Positiveness and Positivism?

Positiveness as a noun is the quality of being positive; positivity while Positivism as a noun is a doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.

Positiveness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality of being positive; positivity The result of being positive

Positivism

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness.A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).

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